Sharing SinnoLAB Activity with Potential Stakeholders #11 Consortium Meeting Lisbon Prof.(Dr.) Vijay Khare Institution: Savitribai Phule Pune University Lisbon 01-03-2018
Future Plan of SinnoLab at the International Centre, SPPU Paramount importance will be given to training young students in entrepreneurship skills that cater to the social needs. Our SinnoLab would also realize the basic truth that being technically good is not adequate and therefore, rigorous training will be given in communication skills, sound values and professional ethics to enable the students to venture out in confidence and prove his caliber in the competitive workplace. To propose a structured and pragmatic solution to address the lack of relevant skills amongst the current and potential young entrepreneurs. To design a structured and scalable framework to impart skills to the students in order to empower them with the set of skills for a specific job role. To subsequently extend the skilling initiatives to the most vulnerable sections of community as identified from time to time. To inculcate in the students the idea that no work is big or small and to develop a work culture with the right aptitude This is a paradigm shift to disseminate social innovative ideas amongst the young prospective entrepreneurs in the way we see higher education. This will make higher education accessible and available to the poor, meritorious and the marginalized.
Stakeholders In my Institution: Name of the partner: Department of Management Sciences and Skill Development Centre, SPPU (Internal Partner) How can they contribute to future SinnoLAB activity? We will carry out SinnoLab activity on the following key strategic issues, with the help of the internal partner: to foster innovation inspired entrepreneurship with social purpose to inspire future generations who aspire to become social entrepreneurs, due to their inventive approach set up special social entrepreneurship unit for women networking with local, rural, national and international communities develop strategies and social ideas for new businesses networking to reach the masses to develop and expand social ideas
Stakeholders In my Institution: Name of the partner: Department of Management Sciences and Skill Development Centre, SPPU (Internal Partners) What might promote cooperation with them? The Department of Management Sciences and Skill Development Centre, SPPU, already have well established separate cells on entrepreneurs. We would use their ideas and expertise to disseminate information to the emerging graduate students and prospective young entrepreneurs, through SinnoLab activities. What do you think might make cooperation difficult? We don t envisage any difficulties as far as cooperation in disseminating SinnoLab activities is concerned. SPPU has a separate innovation centre, established with the help of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and through the Centre, the University authorities have been working hard to make the Centre viable, so that new entrepreneurs can emerge and they can contribute to the welfare of the society.
Department of Management Sciences, SPPU YUKTI is an annual Entrepreneurship event organised by the Entrepreneurship Development cell of Department of Management Sciences Skill Development Centre, SPPU Photonics Skill Development Workshop
Earn and Learn Scheme at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU)
Stakeholders Around the Institution Name of the partner : P.E. S. Modern College of Arts, Commerce & Science, Shivajinagar, Pune and NGOs(External Partners) How can they contribute to future SinnoLAB activity? Through the SinnoLab, we can involve them to become social innovators, entrepreneurs and disseminate information to benefit the society. In terms of social responsibility, our main aim would be to expose the students to the elements of creativity and innovation. We would also expand the activities of the university social projects within the concerned departments and in one of the affiliated colleges. As a part of social responsibility, the aim of SPPU will be to focus on innovative and entrepreneurship processes. The objective of the SinnoLab at SPPU would be to enable empowerment through social and regional inclusion and to foster social entrepreneurship in order to promote value based and high quality social innovation. Assimilate Innovative thinking to increase global linkages with an emphasis on social issues and social responsibility. Modern College has Centre for Innovations in Teaching, Learning and Evaluation Entrepreneur Development Cell
Stakeholders Around the Institution What might promote cooperation with them? We already have cordial relations with them for academic and administrative purposes, so such kind of opportunities will enhance cooperation as well as strengthen SinnoLab activities. What do you think might make cooperation difficult? Financial and time constraints might make cooperation difficult, as external partners may not be available for SinnoLab activities, as and when cooperation is expected from them.
The power crisis in India has become a chronic one, affecting both industries in urban areas and farming communities in rural areas. However, this problem is more acute in rural areas due to their remote inaccessible locations. Gram Oorja, a social enterprise based in Pune, seriously pondered about this crisis. Further, one solution like solar power cannot provide power throughout the day.
Gram Oorja set up a decentralized solar power plant with a capacity of 9.4 kilowatts in 2012. The company also set up a biogas unit as backup power provider when sunlight was not available. The 30.42 kw micro-grid now successfully provides electricity for lighting and power to over 140 households in the villages.
Rudra Environmental Solutions, Pune, very strongly believe in Social transformation through Innovation. They believe invention can solve many of the biggest social, environmental and economic challenges of our time. Rudra, collect plastic waste, such as bottles, bags, food pouches, wrappers, cable covers, etc., from different houses around the city once every fortnight, and recycle it into fuel, gas and sludge. Rudra Solutions had to start from scratch. The friends of the Co-founders joined in and finally, in 2010, they had a running machine.
Their team started to hand out recycled plastic bags to people, asking them to place household plastic waste in the bags, which they would collect at regular intervals. Their small effort has grown to a point now where the team collects 5-6 tons of plastic waste from 5,500 houses in Pune in a month!
The poly-fuel is a mixture of diesel, petrol and kerosene, with very high calorific value. It can be used in boilers, furnaces, stoves, in agricultural firms, etc. Connecting with women in villages!!!
Self-help is the best help!!! An IT company and NGO joined hands with residents to bring water to a parched Pune village Varoti is like a desert in the proximity of an ocean. Situated about 70 km from the fledging city of Pune, the village is surrounded by several high-capacity storage dams such as Panshet, Varasgaon and Khadakvasla. But the dams were built to cater to the growing water requirements of city dwellers, ignoring the villages around them. The villagers approached Jnana Prabodhini, a non-profit organisation that has been working in the area for over 30 years and undertakes several developmental interventions.
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